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Happiness Promo

Ooh look at me, such a fancy podcaster! This is the first recording I did for the new podcast, then sent it off to iTunes to see if they would “approve” it… (approve it you say? approve it?  Yikes.)...

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Happiness1: Sad Is Not The Opposite of Happy

Wow, look ma!  I made a podcast! Off to a roaring start, in this episode I let off a little steam about what I consider to be a grave misconception: that sadness is the opposite of happiness.  This is...

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Happiness2: Gift-Giving Is Usually Insane

Just in time for the holiday season, I’m here to rant against one the most significant rituals of the modern age: spending money we don’t have to buy things nobody needs. Yippee! Share on Facebook

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Happiness3: Telling The Truth

Kara says I shouldn’t talk so much smack about today’s show, but I can’t seem to help myself.  If you’re in any way put off by poor audio quality, please just don’t listen to this episode.   [But Kara...

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Happiness4: Truth-Telling (part II)

Telling the truth is great and all, but… - “you have to be careful…” - “I don’t want to…” - “people will be mad…” - “it will change my life forever…” That’s the kind of stuff we talk about in this...

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Happiness5: Interview With Ryan

Withering wall-flower though he may be, Kara’s son Ryan agreed to join us in today’s episode talking about all kinds of things including but not limited to: his one-man crusade to convince Americans to...

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Happiness6: If You Want Happiness Tips, Don’t Ask Darla

…but that’s not to say that our dear friend Darla isn’t a happy person, because she so is (sickeningly so, she says) – and in today’s show you’ll get to hear some of the latest juicy tidbits of her...

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Happiness7: More About the 12 Steps

In last week’s Consciousness podcast we talked about the challenges of questioning or leaving a 12 Step program that felt like a life-saver in the past. Today we welcome Megan back to talk more about...

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Happiness8: My Mom

Before we go any further, let’s pause to give my mom a round of applause for successfully answering the skype call and not hanging up during the whole interview.  <cheers> Hopefully this is only...

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Happiness9: Amy’s Turn

I’m not sure if it makes any sense to have a show “about Amy” – aren’t all the shows about me?  Or something like that? Oh well… that’s just kinda how it came out today.  What I can’t believe is that I...

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Happiness10: Amy’s State of the Whatever Address

Attention please: THIS IS NOT A NORMAL PODCAST. Okay then, back to your (other) regularly scheduled programs. xo~Amy Share on Facebook

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Happiness11: Doom and Gloom (Part One)

Well whaddya know…. it’s another podcast.  Believe me, I’m as surprised as you are. So to review: “Part One” is the part in which Amy rambles.  “Part Two” comes next, after our friends, family,...

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Happiness12: Doom and Gloom (Part Two)

As Jonathan (my son) said when he was tiny “What’s going on, and what’s the meaning of it?”  Or as Wade (one of today’s guests) wondered as a teen (and many times since) “What’s going ON here!?!?!” It...

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Happiness20: Not So Smart, Not So Special

The warning label on this show would read: Beware! Amy doesn’t know a goddam thing! Thus sets the tone for Season Four.  Enter at your own risk. If you want to join the production team, contact my...

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Happiness21: Abundance and Money

After years of secrecy, today I come out against the word “abundance” as it is most commonly used, as a way (IMO) of justifying and even glamorizing greed and over-consumption. There. I said it. Thanks...

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Happiness22: Being Grumpy with Jonathan

  Jonny with wild baby bunnies It’s hard to imagine someone who looks like this being grumpy, but that’s what my son Jonathan was this morning when I interviewed him for today’s show. After we were...

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Happiness23: Tantrums and Laughter With Kayla

  "a tiny bunny is one of the best things to hold" Today you get to meet the family’s laughing expert: Kayla Dawn Childs. [While typing this she yelled up from downstairs “Thank GOD it’s the day of...

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Happiness24: Pros and Cons of Regret with Nikiah

  again with the baby bunnies.... When my youngest daughter Nikiah agreed to be interviewed on the topic of regret she warned, ” But I don’t believe in regrets – you know that, right?” But then she...

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Happiness25: Amy, Today

Today being September 22, 2010 – and Amy being Yours Truly. For the last couple weeks I’ve been a bit too internally scattered to know much about who I am or what I think, so rather than trying to make...

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Happiness26:Redefining ‘Family’

In that little box under his picture on facebook, Phil Crimmins says “Life is so fucking awesome!”  So of course I had to interview him (to the extent that the internet and skype gods would allow,...

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